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Default Storing Home-Grated Cheese

sf wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:12:43 -0400, "Steve Freides" >
> wrote:
>
>> she never knows how much she'll want, so the solution has to be to
>> give her what she's asking for, a bag of grated cheese she can know
>> is in the 'fridge.

>
> Not sure why fluffiness matters (compare them sometime and you might
> find the commercial grated cheese is thicker and a slightly different
> shape from yours), but you'll need some preservatives because
> refrigerated grated cheese goes moldy pretty fast. I'd store it in
> the freezer and not care if it's fluffy or not.


The experiment is ongoing - the cheese was grated yesterday afternoon,
some of it was used a few hours later, and the rest is still in a single
plastic bag. We'll see what it's like the next time she want it, likely
today or tomorrow.

-S-